In this 5-part podcast series, WTOP reporter Michelle Basch visited the Chesapeake Bay island to learn more about its people and what’s really happening. Tangier Island, Virginia, is slowly sinking.

Tangier Island, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, rises only a few feet above the surrounding waves. An hour by boat from the mainland, about 500 people live on Tangier. Since the 1600s ...

TANGIER, Va. — Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge ushered his visitors onto a boat for a tour of the disappearing shoreline of his island, turned to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and said: “Thinking of ...

The island was disappearing into the nation’s largest estuary, scientists have said, predicting that people living there may have to abandon Tangier in 25 to 50 years. The Associated Press ...

Tangier, 12 miles out in the bay, is a low, marshy island with golden grassy areas, a white church spire and water tower rising above tightly clustered homes, docks and boats along the channels to ...

Tangier Island is located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, just south of the Maryland line. ... Most people get around the 3-mile-long island by foot, golf cart or bicycle.

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — A teenager wanders at dusk, playing pop hits from 2010 on his phone at top volume. Old men speak a dialect similar to Cornish. The mayor has an office in town, but spends ...

Tangier Island, home to a Virginia fishing town and about 400 people, could be saturated by rising seas and convert to uninhabitable wetlands by 2051, according to an analysis released Monday.

The real people of island life. Tangier Island is located twelve miles offshore, in the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier Island is a tightknit, culturally unique fishing community focused on commercial fish… ...

Tangier residents feel their little island in the middle of Chesapeake Bay has been a sort of safe haven from the COVID-19 crisis raging ... infecting people on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and ...

Tangier Island, where tradition-bound residents make their living from the Chesapeake Bay and some speak a dialect similar to Cornish, ... “People on the island will live 60-70 years, ...